Dining Out While Losing Weight in Robinson, PA

Going out to eat is great.  Good food, social atmosphere, and you are not the one doing the cooking.  What about when you are trying to lose weight?

Going out to eat when dieting can be intimidating.  Finding items to suit your dietary needs on menus can be difficult.

When going out to eat it is important not to get discouraged.  Sometimes a Medically supervised weight loss and management program, like this one offered in Robinson,PA, can be very helpful if you are a socialite trying to drop a few pounds.

Good rules of thumb to follow while dining out and on a diet are these:

1.     Eat light.  Go for a salad with steamed or baked protein, and light dressing.  Skip the croutons, and share the bread!

2.    Get diet soda, iced tea, or water.  Drinking water curbs the appetite.

3.    Desert? No thanks! Skip desert.  Instead order some fresh fruit salad.

4.     Chew your food.  This may seem like something we do automatically but it isn’t.  Chewing your food more takes more energy, slows the eating process, and allows your body to actually feel hungry.

5.    If you are ordering something heavy, like pasta or a sandwich with a lot of protein, take home leftovers.  Break up those calories throughout the day, but don’t eat heavy in the late evening.

7.    Most restaurants offer some sort of “Light” option, or “healthy choice” option.  Not all do however.

8.   Most restaurants should have nutritional information (ingredients, calories, grams of fat) in the kitchen, and will gladly give it to you.
Want more help with your diet?  Need more supervision?

Allegheny Medical can help! Our Lighten Up® Weight Management Program is a medically supervised exercise program which educates individuals about leading health, active lifestyles and reduces risk factors for disease and injury. Every individual is screened, tested and counseled prior to beginning the customized exercise program.

Weekly Program

1 Office Visit with the Doctor, 1 Office Visit with Registered Dietitian, and 3 Supervised Work-Out Sessions. Price is $29.00 a week.

To schedule an appointment, please call our office 412-494-4554.

Allegheny Medical
2000 Cliff Mine Rd, #110
Pittsburgh, PA 15275

412-494-4550

Office Hours: Monday-Thursday: 9:00 am - 7:00 pm and Friday: 9:00 am - 5:00 pm

Pittsburgh: Get Ready for Summer Swimwear!

Bikini Ready: Now! With Weigh Loss Help in Coraopolis PA

It’s summer, and while some of us are bikini ready, a lot of us are still trying to be that girl in the Yoplait commercial.  You know the one that saves her teeny bikini in the closet until viola! Magically Yoplait light yogurt magically allows her to fit into the bikini?  If only weight loss were that easy.

It may not be as easy as commercials make it seem, but it definitely is possible.  Here are some great, fun, high calorie burning exercises to get you bikini ready in no time!

1. Squash.  An hour of playing squash burns 1,000 calories.  No, it isn’t a typo.  Squash is a high energy cardio sport.  To win, you have to outsmart the other player, and of course be able to volley with a racket and a rubber ball no bigger than a gulf ball.
2. Swimming.  So you may not be totally bikini ready, it is okay.  Swimming is a great cardio workout.  An hour of swimming (at a moderate pace, based on a 150 lb. female) burns about 540 calories!
3. Walking. Walking isn’t the fastest calorie burning exercise, but for those of you just starting out, it is a great one!  Walking burns about 205 calories per hour (based on a 150 lb. female, at a moderate pace).
4. Aerobics.  Aerobics can be done in your home, with or without a video, and it is an amazing calorie burner.  Aerobics burn 410 calories per hour (based on a 150 lb. female).
   

Allegheny Medical can help! Our Lighten Up® Weight Management Program is a medically supervised exercise program which educates individuals about leading health, active lifestyles and reduces risk factors for disease and injury. Every individual is screened, tested and counseled prior to beginning the customized exercise program.

Weekly Program

1 Office Visit with the Doctor, 1 Office Visit with Registered Dietitian, and 3 Supervised Work-Out Sessions. Price is $29.00 a week.

Body Contouring for Spot Fat Reduction of Stubborn Area.

In Pittsburgh, LipoLaser treatments can be found at Allegheny Medical , one of the premier LipoLaser treatment centers in the western PA area.  Lipo Laser is pain free and non-invasive.

To schedule an appointment, please call our office 412-494-4554.

Allegheny Medical
2000 Cliff Mine Rd, #110
Pittsburgh, PA 15275

412-494-4550

Office Hours: Monday-Thursday: 9:00 am - 7:00 pm and Friday: 9:00 am - 5:00 pm

Weight Loss Apps & Robinson PA Weight Management Programs

Integrating fitness and learning healthier eating habits for weight loss: Robinson PA

Currently 68% of adults are overweight or obese and 33% are obese.  Obesity is a major health problem facing America, and it is growing.  I wish I could say that people in Pittsburgh beat these trends, but despite our excellent healthcare access, we are no thinner than the rest of America.

Losing weight isn’t easy.  It takes commitment, hard work, exercise, and a focus on a healthy diet.

Technology has made the weight loss process a little easier.  If you have a smartphone, you can download apps to help.  For example, My Fitness Pal makes it easy to record the foods you eat, the exercise you do.  You give MFP your goal weight, and MFP gives you a maximum caloric intake to follow.  This max caloric intake is easy to follow using the computerized program to record your foods and our exercise.

MFP also has an area to record weight, as well as estimates your future weight in the next five weeks.  MFP is just one of many calorie counting programs out there online, there are a lot to choose from, and if you do choose to go this route, make sure to read some reviews about the sites and that the site offers everything you need for your weight loss journey.

Robinson PA Medically Supervised Weight Loss and Weight Management Programs

Allegheny Medical's Lighten Up® Weight Management Program is a medically supervised exercise program which educates individuals about leading health, active lifestyles and reduces risk factors for disease and injury. Every individual is screened, tested and counseled prior to begining the customized exercise program.

Weekly Program

1 Office Visit with the Doctor, 1 Office Visit with Registered Dietitian, and 3 Supervised Work-Out Sessions. Price is $29.00 a week.

To schedule an appointment, please call our office 412-494-4554.

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